New 'superlens' will revolutionize astronomy, medicine, biology.
In article SaJFh.22900$PD2.10812@attbi_s22,
Sam Wormley wrote:
Robert Clark wrote:
If this succeeds then telescope apertures will only need to be a
fraction of their current size to achieve the same resolution. This
will be fundamentally important for space based telescopes.
Bull****--show us the calculations!
Yup. Diffraction limiting has to be taken into account somewhere.
Plus, telescopes are "big" for other reasons than resolution -- light
gathering is something that only big apertures can do.
Isaac
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